Maria Pia De Vito受过正统歌剧、现代声乐与音乐理论训练，1976年开始参与音乐演出，1980年进入爵士乐的领域，她的演唱融合了复杂的技巧，从中世纪的吟唱、意大利歌剧的美声唱法、现代声乐、到爵士乐即兴的拟声唱法，无一不是组成Maria Pia De Vito迷人声乐世界的一环。 　　Maria Pia De Vito is an Italian jazz singer, composer, and arranger. Born 1960 in Naples, she studied opera, contemporary singing, music theory and harmony and started her musical career in 1976 as a singer and guitarist (and, later, as a pianist) in groups ethno-oriented, specialising in music from the Mediterranean and the Balkans. 　　Since the 1980s she has been active on the jazz scene as a singer, performing and collaborating with, among others, Huw Warren, Kenny Wheeler, Ralph Towner, Joe Zawinul, Michael Brecker, Steve Turre, and the Art Ensemble of Chicago. 　　Between 1994 and 1997 she worked together with pianist Rita Marcotulli on the project Nauplia, in which she combined the music of her home town, Naples, with improvisational elements of jazz. 　　She has often worked with the British composer Colin Towns and with pianist John Taylor. She was a leading player in projects such as The Ugly Duckling with music by Giorgio Gaslini.